Gyland is a village in the municipality of

Flekkefjord Flekkefjord () is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Lister Region, Lister. The administrative centre of the municipality is the ...

Agder Agder is a counties of Norway, county () and districts of Norway, traditional region in the southern part of Norway and is coextensive with the Southern Norway region. The county was established on 1 January 2020, when the old Vest-Agder and Au ...

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. It is located in the northeastern part of

along the river Gylandselva, just a short distance north of the lake Kumlevollvatnet. The

Sørlandet Line The Sørlandet Line () is a railway line between Drammen (though this is connected to Oslo by means of the Drammen Line) via Kristiansand to Stavanger. The line is long between Oslo and Stavanger. History The railway was constructed in several ...

runs just south of the village, stopping at

Gyland Station Gyland Station () is a railway station of the Sørlandet Line situated at Gyland in Flekkefjord, Norway. Located from Oslo Central Station, it is served by long-distance trains operated by Go-Ahead Norge. In addition to intercity services to Osl ...

. The local village church, Gyland Church, was located in the village until 1929 when it was moved about to the southwest. Now a small chapel is located in Gyland where the old church was once standing.

Name

The municipality (originally the

parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christianity, Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest#Christianity, priest, often termed a parish pries ...

) was named after the old ''Gyland'' farm (

Old Norse Old Norse, also referred to as Old Nordic or Old Scandinavian, was a stage of development of North Germanic languages, North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants ...

: ''Gýjuland''), where Gyland Church was originally located. The first element is the old name of the river that flows past the farm (Old Norse: ''Gýja'' or ''Gý'') and the last element is ''land'' which means "land".

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Weather information for Gyland
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